Lancaster Daily Intelligencer

War Upon Living Curiosities.

A meeting of the managers of museums throughout the United States was held in Pittsburg Monday evening for the purpose of forming a combination that will give them control of the movements and salaries of all the living curiosities in the country. Managers were there from Cincinnati, Chicago, Milwaukee, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, and other large cities were represented by letter. The managers are a unit on this idea of organization, and entered into the scheme harmoniously and heartily. The result will be that attractions will have to accept whatever salaries the combinations will agree to pay them, otherwise their charms will remain hidden from the public gaze. The managers are of the opinion that living curiosities have been getting too much of their money, and this federation is really a strike on the part of capital against skeletons, fat women, two headed girls, armless and legless creatures, midgets, giants, gorillas, Zulus and such like.